Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-10-28

err Give MS little more drill, give us a
little longer rope little more TO do" The
feeling has been then, in these years. that
there is TO he and must he a constant i'm
provcmeut. So far then as that factor is
concerned, it seems to me that We have had
it in the school
Second We must have if we succeed
well i'm our schools, we must have a corps
of teachers, earnest in their work devoted
To- their work, and educated for their work,
aud willing purpose to do the best that
can Ice done, under the circumstances.
Have we had such No one, ladies and
gentlemen, and old teachers, feels the loss
and want Of higher education more than
your principal He has never had the ben
eft of the higher instruction that our col
loges give, The only satisfaction that can
get out Of that unpleasant feeling is that |
weigh my love for the work and weigh
my devotion to the work with any man.
with any teacher What | lack, then, in
that respect, do sometimes think that
can make up in small way in that devo-
ton But what a corps Of co workers |
have been surrounded by in these years
What fitting of the younger minds, the
younger pupils received in the lower grades,
preparatory to entering the High school.
Hence, in that respect, / may say that the
second factor has been furnished us.
Again, we must have behind us parents
who have a love for their children, of
course, but parents who reign at home
kind and aifectionate and loving, but they
must reign at home. Mothers, see to it that
YOU do reign Fathers, let me emphasize
it, reign Blessed is the boy who reaches
II certain year in school life and finds him
self desiring to drift away into shops, t.
drift away into this that or the other occu-
patton negecting at the very time when it
is important that he should pursue his stud
ics-blessed is that boy if he has got faith
err at the helm-a father that can say and
have it understood, too, School is your
business"
Again, we have been furnished with Just
such parents. Look at the papers that we
receive morning after morning with the ex
cuses of the scholars, with the explanation
that this one and that one were kept al
home by some imperative reason. Look al
these papers and answer for yourselve,
whether we have been supplied with that in
| flucnce in the school We must have he
| hind us the public sentiment There mus
| be public sentiment that shall force to sue
cess the schools in the community. Hav,
we had it IL see l must hasten. have ",
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on four or five occasions in this vilag,
when it was rumored about town that til,
| schools were in danger, that certain step
were to be taken in the approaching schoo
meeting, certain things to he then transact
ed and overturned What was the mean
ing, that 700 or 800 strong, with teeth set
standing erect, the voters walked into tn
town hall, where they had to meet to hol,
their school meetings, and there stood a
! their posts ready to discharge their duty il
| upholding their committee, and upholdinj
the teachers, and to push the matter over
board What was the meaning of it Wa
it not that this community have been $
ready to support their officials, teachers, an
all desiring the support, in order to hav
the public schools in the best possible con
dition Have we had, then, in Brattleborc
this essential factor know we have wit
one exception
am, then, at liberty to feel that | cal
with good conscience, say these words c
welcome to YOU in behalf of your president
in behalf OF the officers that he has ha
about him, and his committees Was it
light task to make all these arrangement
that YOU might here assemble In their he
half. | say to the old members of the schoo
those preceding the time when | knew Vol
] VINO were united IN assisting to establish
name worthy for the Bratteboro Hig
school to those who came forward at tbs
time, that are here to night, So many ,
You, that, in my judgment, have lahore
hard to sustain the good name that the ul
pupils 50 well established also. to You
fathers and mothers, that have been read
with your sympathy and ready with yot
influence to sustain and uphold the schoo
of Brattlehoro To you teachers-and wi
not forget the primary teachers-to yo
teachers, that have 50 laboriously perform
ed your work in fitting and preparing f,
the passing Of the children from one graz
tn another; to the committee and To ii
citizens at large, | think am safe when
; say that YOU are heartily welcome We
come to this first reunion Of the BrattleboI
High school
p Is it too much TO hope that when our la
work has been accomplished when the La
class has graduated, is it too much to hoI
} that we may all be united in that temp
not made with hands eternal in the hea'
ems, that we may there hear, each one
us, the "N'ell done come up higher"